>> I own none of the characters from Gundam Seed.

And so it continues...

"Dearka… Dearka… you're on a hunt for Dearka! Dum dee dum! THE WILD CREATURE! Dearka… W-I-L-D! We. Must. Vanquish. Dearka!"

"SHADDUP!" screamed Yzak, resisting the urge to swing the axe, whose name he had forgotten, at the person singing. It wasn't Nicol, either.

Nicol was walking, all nice and quiet like, while dragging behind him his hammer.

There was this brunette kid with purple eyes and he was the one who had been singing.

Four steps later, curiosity got the best of Yzak. "Who are you, strange person!"

"Me?" the stranger said, pointing to himself.

"Yes! You! Who else would I be talking to?" growled Yzak.

"Well, my name is Kira and I was singing a theme song for you and your sidekick. You confuzzled my head because I thought you would be more interested to know who that guy in the bug suit was."

Yzak froze. "Bug… suit?"

Kira nodded energetically. "He's standing right behind you!"

Yzak spun around and came face to face with Dearka.

At that same moment, Athrun came running down the street. "Hey! You nasty bug brained buffoon! What did you do with my car!"

Nicol was staring at the intersection just twenty feet further done the road. He pointed with his free hand and said, "I think that's what happened."

Not-so-innocent Nicol was staring at a massive pile up of vehicles. It looked like it was caused by… Athrun's car… being driven by Bug-man.

Athrun screamed in horror.

Dearka looked clueless.

Kira looked like a hippie.

Nicol shrugged and sat down to polished his hammer.

Yzak looked at the mess of cars, dishwashers, and other random kitchen appliances. He said to Dearka, "Why would circle around and come back this way if you were trying to get away from us?"

Dearka scratched his chin, as if to appear deep in thought. He went to scratch his ear, but he couldn't because of the bug-suit. "AHHHHHH! I lost my ear! What will I DO!"

Yzak took a big step away from Dearka and hit him with the flat side of the axe.

Dearka came to his sense, or whatever senses he had left, which wasn't many. "I didn't circle around. This was as far as I got."

Athrun was furious. He stood up and was about to shriek something at Dearka, but then a Frisbee flew over his head. He turned around to watch it and saw it land next to a turtle. "EEEEKKK! It's coming to eat me! SOMEBODY SAVE ME!"

Yes indeed, the turtle was head towards Athrun, but as for its intention, nothing is positive.

Next, the ever-so-manly Cagalli swung from a conveniently placed vine. She landed between Athrun and the turtle and swung her arms high into the air. "Cagalli strong! Cagalli defeat turtle! Cagalli be hero! UHG!"

Cagalli approached the turtle and knelt down next to it. She shoved her face in front of the turtle's and said, "You go on journey. You go away. Leave blue-boy alone."

The turtle seemed to glare. It bit Cagalli's nose.

Cagalli grunted in pain and stepped back, only to fall down a hole.

"Dagnabbit! That there's MY hole!"

A new character appeared on the scene. This time it was a blond teen with golden-ish eyes. (OMG! I am SO sorry Miguel…)

"THANK YOU!" yelled Kira randomly.

Everyone ignored him.

"Why were digging holes in your yard Miguel?" asked Nicol.

Miguel peered at the house and yard behind him. "That? That there's not my house. Nope. Not one inch of it. That house there belongs to Lacus. Ya know, she runs that freak show up on her own personal PLANT-thingy-ma-bobber. Yup!"

Nicol's right eye twitched. "YOU DIDN'T ANSWER MY QUESTION!"

Athrun scolded Nicol. "Don't be mean to our guest!"

Athrun grabbed Miguel's hand and pulled him through an imaginary door. "Welcome home, brother!"

Yzak spared a glance at Athrun, and then walked up to the door of the house. He rang the doorbell and waited.

Dearka decided that at this moment that he was not patient, so he ran at the house and flung himself through a window.

Still, Yzak waited.

Kira was patting Athrun on the head, trying to clam him, and to stop him from bawling like a little child.

Meanwhile, the door to the house was flung open. Lacus was standing there holding a chain which attached to an iron collar secured around Dearka's neck. "Why, is this your bug-man?"

Yzak took a couple seconds to collect his thoughts before he replied. "No, he does not belong to me. I was hunting him with the help of my sidekick, Nicol. That has nothing to do with the reason I am standing here on your doorstep though," Yzak acquired a philosophical expression, "It all started when our hunt led us to this area. A few uneventful events happened, which I shall not describe, and led us to finding a hole in your yard."

"There's a hole in my yard?" Lacus said with surprise. Her grip on Dearka's leash loosened.

Yzak turned around and pointed to where the others were on the sidewalk, "You see the guy playing the banjo? That's the culprit."

"Well now…" chirped Lacus sweetly, "I'll make you a deal. I'll forgive your hillbilly friend if you let me add your bug-man to my freak show!"

At this precise moment, Dearka yanked the leash from Lacus's hand and sprang across the yard in hopes of making a great escape.

He was stopped, though, by Nicol, who had randomly broke into dance. This dance was somewhere between a tribal dance and one of a Mardi gras celebration. (coughMouthOnFirecough)

Dearka was knocked unconscious by a Frisbee.

Athrun pointed and laughed at him.

"Don't be so mean!" whined Kira with big, watery eyes.

Miguel was strumming away at his banjo, having forgotten all about the tunnel he was digging.

Nicol stopped dancing and looked into the sky. He saw something very high in the sky. He squinted to try and figure out what it was.

Soon, Nicol realized that it was coming down, and quickly.

Kira saw Nicol was staring at something in the sky, so he stared too. "Hey… I think that's a spaceship or something."

"You're right! I think it is!" exclaimed Nicol. He was pleased that he knew what the unidentified flying object was.

Yzak turned his eyes to the sky and saw the falling ship. "I wonder where that's gonna hit," he mumbled to himself quietly.

After a few more seconds of watching the falling object, everyone came to the same conclusion: It was coming towards them.

It crashed it a stop in the intersection, and while doing so, it completely disintegrated Athrun's car.

Athrun started babbling about how a turtle used French fries to steal his wallet.

A door on the space ship popped open and a whole lot of steam and fog came out, giving a mysterious atmosphere.

Everyone slowly gathered around the opening, hoping to catch a glimpse of an alien, perhaps.

Then, out stepped the pilot of the ship.

The small crowd gave a disappointed groan when they saw the pilot was human.

"Hey, arrr! What's up with that! I'm a feared space pirate!" cried out the blond haired man.

Lacus squinted at the pirate. "Oh! I know who you are! You're Half-Feather Mwu, right?"

Dearka sprung up and startled everyone. "Half-Feather Mwu! Hide your false teeth, everybody!"

Dearka reached into a pocket of the bug suit and pulled out a pair of fake teeth. He chucked them down the hole in Lacus's yard.

From below, there was a very manly "OW!"

Miguel didn't know if those were Dearka's real teeth, or just a second pair. He pointed his banjo at Dearka's mouth and said, "Open up, young'in!"

On the banjo, there sat a turtle.

Athrun saw this and screamed/stuttered. "Y-you'd better d-d-do what the hillbil-l-ly w-wants, Bug-man!"

"Un-uh!" refused Dearka as he shook his head.

Lacus growled and grabbed Dearka's leash.

She gave it a good, hard yank and, with the help of Yzak and Nicol armed with the axe and hammer, ushered the Bug-man into Half-Feather Mwu's spaceship.

"Let's go everybody!" chirped Lacus, "I'll let you all come see my freak show for free, just 'cause I'm that nice! I'll every let Half-Feather Mwu in, since he's going to be kind enough to give us all a ride there!"

"AR! I am?" Mwu questioned, scratching his head.

"Yup! Now you all get on the ship before it leaves! You don't want to be left behind! Especially after dark! That's when the Oooooogally monsters come out." Lacus spoke in such a tone, that it made everyone feel like small children.

Yzak snarled because of his lack of Coke and/or Vanilla Coke, but marched onto the pirate's ship anyway. The axe made a loud scraping noise because he was dragging it so carelessly.

Nicol hefted his hammer over his shoulder and followed, all the time worrying about how dull his axe was going to get with Yzak treating it that way.

Athrun sprinted on and was peeking out the small round windows. He would jump from one window to another almost instantly. He was making sure the turtle wasn't following.

Miguel grabbed his shovel and trailed the others on. He whistled a tune to himself which sounded like a gold-rush-era song.

Lacus gave Mwu a nod, indicating that that was everyone and tip-toed on.

Mwu, not entirely sure what to do about these people imposing on him like this, decided he would play it safe and take them where they wanted to go. He might be a pirate, but he wasn't a stupid pirate. He knew he couldn't fight all these strange people off by himself. And three of them had weapons. (Axe, Hammer, Shovel).

Half-Feather Mwu walked in his spaceship and closed the door. He made his way to the cockpit and sat down in the captain's seat. He spoke into a microphone, "Arr, please put your seatbelts on; we are about to tale off."

Okay, I have NO CLUE what Mwu's ship looks like. You get to use you own imaginations for that.

Mouth on Fire is a song from Wolf's Rain, if you wanted to know.

Next chapter is the ride to Lacus's Carnival/Freak Show. And you must keep one thing in mind. All of the dear Gundam characters will all be in a confined space for a very long time.